Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) on yesterday issued a statement asking President Goodluck Jonathan to sack the Chairman of the National Population Commission, Festus Odimegwu.
In a communiqué signed by the forum during their meeting with members of President Jonathan’s Committee on Peace and Dialogue.
According to the Forum’s spokesperson, Anthony Sani, he added that Mr. Odimegwu has shown his inability to conduct the 2016 census in an honest manner.
The added thus: “The meeting noted with delight the query which the Federal Government has issued Chief Odimegwu for discrediting past censuses, considering the sensitive nature of census exercise not only in Nigeria but across the globe.”
“While ACF is not opposed to improvement of management practices that could bring about acceptable census needed for planning of socio-economic and political development of the country, to submit that all past censuses were manipulated in favor of a section of the country to the chagrin of the other sections may be understood but not acceptable.”
“That is why ACF appeals to the Federal Government to reconsider its decision to allow the 2016 census under the watch of Chief Festus Odimegwu.”
